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CfP: Conference on Nations and Empires

The concept of ‘nation’ often comes entangled with notions of ‘race’, ‘religion’, ‘ethnicity’ and ‘class’, as well as with other markers of collective identifications in the early modern and modern periods. This international conference, organised by the Universities of Regensburg, Bayreuth and Toulouse, aims to explore these relationships in all their conceptual and phenomenological complexity through examples from Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

Time: 22 – 24 April 2020
Venue: University of Toulouse, France
Deadline for abstracts: 2 December 2019

CfP: Conference on Religion on the Periphery

Attitudes of society and individuals towards persons or groups on the periphery can be seen as an indication of the state of their culture and civilisation. Numerous religious traditions throughout history demonstrate, however, that peripheral areas of social life, as well as peripheral areas of faith, are phenomena that involve special treatment and special attention by religious authorities as well as by ordinary believers. The aim of this conference, organised by the International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association (ISORECEA), is to reflect on the variety of such peripheries – in particular, peripheries in/of religions as well as in the study of religion.

Time: 23 – 25 April 2020
Venue: Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Deadline for paper and panel proposals: 15 December 2019

Movie Screening: In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran

We would like to strongly recommend the screening of “In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran” at the Leipzig DokFilmFestival. The film by Narges Kalhor will have its world premiere there. In a wild pastiche, Kalhor interweaves the stories of her characters –  a homosexual teenager from Syria who applies for asylum in Germany, an artist whose work is always traced back to her Afghan roots, and a sturdy female beer brewer of Iranian descent – with an animated tale of the Scheherazade and her own struggle for a film that foregoes any compromise with the expectations of others.

Time: 2 November, 4.15 p.m. & 3 November, 12.30 a.m.
Venue: CineStar Leipzig, Petersstraße 44